January 7, 2012
 Tran Tuy’s Khuc dong ca (a children’s song) (Under), which was eerily reminiscent of photographer Duy Anh’s Tiep buoc cha ong (Follow in the ancestor’s footsteps) (Above). Since the list of award-winning works were announced in June, a provincial literature and arts contest in central Vietnam has received several petitions of denouncement regarding a [...]
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November 12, 2011
As Russia marked the 94th anniversary of the October Revolution (November 7), Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Writers’ Association Nguyen Quang Thieu says while the country seems confused by changes under westernization, but it will prove its once powerful culture in the future. For you, as a poet, what is the meaning of Russia? Landscapes and people, [...]
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August 27, 2011
Guenter Giesenfeld and Marianne Ngo, who won a notable award in Germany this year for their translation of a short story collection by Vietnamese author Le Minh Khue I first met Professor Guenter Giesenfeld at an international conference on promoting Vietnamese literature more than a year ago. Our paths crossed again after Le Minh [...]
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June 23, 2011
Students check the results of their high school graduation exams at the Marie Curie High School, Ho Chi Minh City, on Thursday. The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) on Saturday issued a statement expressly banning any instructions than the ones that it has issued for marking the recently held high school graduation exams. Â [...]
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November 27, 2010
Red-eared sliders at the Thien Quang Well in Hanoi’s Temple of Literature Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake and Temple of Literature are seeing a boom in red-eared slider population.  Every morning, scores of sliders climb up on rocks and branches in the lake to sunbathe, according to VnExpress.  Vendors in the area say pagoda [...]
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January 20, 2010
To mark the international conference introducing Vietnamese literature to the world (January 5-10), Tuoi Tre Cuoi Tuan reviews the impact Vietnamese literature is making internationally. From the left: writers Phan Thi Vang Anh, Le Minh Khue, Ho Anh Thai and Nguyen Huy Thiep at the Gothenburg International Book Fair in Sweden 2003. In the early 1990s, [...]
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January 17, 2010
When Noi buon chien tranh (The Sorrow of War) was published in 1991, it brought Bao Ninh literary fame Bao Ninh keeps his cell phone off. Heâs on indefinite unpaid leave from his post as editor at Van Nghe (Literature) newspaper. Heâs focused on his new novel, his first since The Sorrow of War, which [...]
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January 10, 2010
Fourth Singer’s Day to be held in Quy Nhon; Promoting cooperation in translating Vietnamese literature; Hung Kings feted in Phu Tho; More foreign artists to attend Festival Hue 2010 Fourth Singer’s Day to be held in Quy Nhon More than 200 singers will attend “Singer’s Day”, the biggest annual event for them, in the Central [...]
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January 10, 2010
An English translation of a collection of Vietnamese poetry, Memory of Black Eyes, has proved to be a big hit with foreigners, with the book flying off the shelves at bookshops. Nguyen Trong TaoLookAtVietnam – An English translation of a collection of Vietnamese poetry, Ky Uc Mat Den (Memory of Black Eyes), has proved to [...]
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January 9, 2010
Only 570 Vietnamese works that have been translated and introduced in foreign countries Vietnam needs to support foreign translators of local works if the country wants its literature to be appreciated overseas, intellectuals from Vietnam and around the world agreed at a six-day conference in Hanoi. About 13,700 literary works from writers around the world [...]
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